Another Major League Baseball draft is in the books. It’s the fourth for Randy Flores since taking on Scouting Director duties in August 2015 and only time will tell how these picks develop. Fortunately, we do have some proper time to evaluate Cardinal draft picks from a little further back. Building off of Ben Godar’s great work from earlier this week, I’ve attempted to illustrate 18 years of Cardinal drafts in visual form.
For each Cardinal draft since 2000, I’ve created stacked bar charts for each year, presented in small multiples. Together, these graphs illustrate:
- The highest farm system level each draft pick reached
- Whether or not that level was reached inside the Cardinals organization or with another franchise
- Whether or not the player signed with the Cardinals out of the draft
- How many Cardinal draftees reached the Major Leagues each year
- The chronological order of each pick- their pick order goes from left to right.